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Bring us back into the NHS now! – demand Maudsley strikers as...

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‘BRING us back into the NHS NOW!’ strikers from SLaM (South London and Maudsley) mental health trust are demanding as they converge on Downing...

Trump Blasts G7 Summit

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AFTER departing early from the G7 summit in Quebec for Singapore, President Donald Trump called on US representatives not to endorse the joint communique...

MILIBAND ADOPTS ‘ONE NATION’ TORY POLICY! – and pledges full support for the private...

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LABOUR leader Miliband adopted the traditional Tory slogan of ‘One Nation’ at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday. ‘In this most difficult economic time...
Grenfell Tower inferno survivors and local residents lobby a meeting of the Kensington and Chelsea council demanding it resigns

Glasgow Cladding Scandal

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HUNDREDS of residents have received letters confirming Glasgow tower blocks have the very same combustible cladding that rapidly spread the fire in the Grenfell...

‘Tories out of control!’ says Labour as pound crashes

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‘THEY'VE lost credibility, they’re losing confidence, they’re out of control,’ Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as the pound...

HALT NHS OUTSOURCING! – urges the Unison trade union

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THE NHS is wasting precious time and money introducing reforms that are failing to deliver better services to patients or value for money, says...
‘No Blood for Oil’ chanted a lively picket of the Bank of England demanding the bank returns $1.3bn worth of gold to Venezuela

‘Give Venezuela back its gold!’

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‘BANK of England you’ve been told – Give Venezuela back its gold’ chanted a 60-strong picket line outside the bank yesterday lunchtime....

China Threat To US Dollar

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Fears that China intends to reduce the amount of US government bonds it holds as part of its foreign exchange reserves, shook the US...
Yesterday’s picket at Chase Farm – is having a big impact on the struggle to keep the hospital open

Chase Farm CEO quits!

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MARK EASTON, the chief executive of the Chase Farm and Barnet NHS Trust, quit yesterday after it was made public that the trust intended...

Banfield urges Tories –‘No more excuses – make credible offer!’

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WORKERS blame the government for the 7.7m-long waiting lists in England, finds a survey. As doctors in England begin the longest period of combined industrial...

Housing: new crash fears!

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THE number of buy-to-let loans, and the amount of lending, are now their highest since the financial crash in the third quarter of 2008,...
Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line yesterday determined to win their jobs back

‘We reject compulsory redundancies’ – say Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet workers were on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, determined to win their rights, having been told on Wednesday that British...
Teachers on the pensions strike with a message for Tory education secretary Michael Gove

‘FREE SCHOOLS A DISGRACE’ – says NUT’s Blower

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DISMANTLING our state education system and parcelling it off to unelected, unaccountable sponsors is a disgrace,’ Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union...

WORKERS DEMAND ACTION – as Woodley refuses to ballot Airport TGWU members

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TRANSPORT and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley led a delegation into talks with British Airways chief Rod Eddington at Heathrow Airport yesterday...
Passenger with hand trapped in train door being dragged along the platform

Safety Case Is Proven!

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THIS is the CCTV image – produced in court this week – which shows that Southern railways is wrong when it says driver-only operation...

Fresh Tory council cuts – Vital services axed

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THE NEW financial year has kicked in, and with every council budget being cut to the bone the future of leisure centres, council run...

Mass austerity protests called in France for September 10th

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PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron gave his support to Prime Minister François Bayrou at a cabinet meeting yesterday, as France is bracing for fresh political turmoil...
Over 10,000 workers and their families took part in the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs Anniversary March on Sunday, remembering the famous struggle by Dorset agricultural labourers for trade union rights, and expressing their anger at the crisis-ridden Tory coa

Net Closes In On Cameron

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PRIME Minister Cameron came under increasing pressure yesterday to follow the two top London police officers who have quit in the past two days,...
Riot police attack demonstrators on Wednesday in Athens. Photo credit: Marios Lolos

Greek One-Day General Strike

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UNDER the umbrella of ‘Social Alliance’, the GSEE (Greek TUC), the ADEDY (public sector workers’ unions federation) and the small and medium sized business...
UNISON members and supporters at Kingston Hospital held a lively demonstration on the NHS Together Day of Action in March this year

‘WE ARE READY TO STRIKE!’ – UNISON’s Prentis warns Brown

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‘I send this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...

500,000 sanctioned in 12 MONTHS

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CAMPAIGNERS will be protesting outside Jobcentres in over 70 towns and cities across the UK on Wednesday (9 March 2016) as part of...
The front of the two million-strong demonstration in London on February 15 2003 against the war on Iraq

‘I MADE MY CHOICE . . . AND FULLY ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITIES’ says Straw...

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JUST before Jack Straw appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday, he released a 25-page memorandum which explained that his decision to support the Iraq...

Tories have taken no action to stop another Grenfell

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NEARLY two years since the Grenfell fire, in which 72 people lost their lives, the government has done nothing to adequately prepare fire and...

SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO! – but Blair rejects MP’s committee demands

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The Blair government yesterday came under fire from MPs and human rights organisation Amnesty International over the so-called ‘war on terror’. In its annual human...

Tory rights ‘smash and grab’ – threat to ban support for Palestine

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‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking...

FBU issued cladding warning eight years before the Grenfell Inferno!

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THE government did not act on advice from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to issue ‘a warning to housing providers’ about the danger of...

MURDER IN IRAQ! – new inquiry into British Army

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THE Secretary of State for Defence will today announce in Parliament the establishment of a public inquiry into the incident of alleged mistreatment and...

TORIES IMPOSE £10,000 FINES! – and make appeal for informers

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THE TORY government is imposing a new legal duty to ‘self-isolate’ if instructed to do so by ‘NHS Test and Trace’ from next Monday,...
Women and children demonstrate their opposition to the bombing of Libya at the recent massive TUC anti-cuts march

HALT ATTACK ON LIBYA – demands unite

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Unite, the biggest union in the UK and Ireland, yesterday called upon the governments of the UK, France and the US to halt the...

Council Made Millions While Cutting Grenfell Costs!

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THE COUNCIL responsible for Grenfell Tower made multimillion-pound property deals while cutting costs to the tower’s restoration, it has emerged. Seventy-two people died when a...
Postal workers in the front line of the strike against Brown’s privatisation policies – they are determined to defend the Royal Mail

PANIC RESHUFFLE! – while the rats continue to leave sinking ship

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Prime Minister Brown held a press conference late afternoon yesterday to announce the cabinet changes in a hurried reshuffle following the resignations of five...
Teachers out on strike with other public sector workers last November 30th

Teachers unions unite for action

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The UK’s two biggest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, yesterday announced plans for jointly coordinated strike action and action short of strike...
Palestinian homes in Al Zutan destroyed by the Israeli army

SHOOT-TO-KILL POLICY STAYS And more innocents may die says Commissionair Blair

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‘I feel unsafe,’ Alex Alves Pereira, the cousin of the unarmed Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, killed by the Met police, told News Line...

150,000 Workers & Youth March Through London In Support Of Palestine!

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THERE were 150,000 workers, students and youth marching through the streets of London for Palestine from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall on Saturday. As the...
Junior doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital in central London during the first day of last month’s 48-hour strike

Hunt refuses BMA offer –TIME FOR THE TUC TO TAKE ACTION

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THE BMA wrote to Tory health secretary Hunt yesterday with a clear offer: lift the imposition of the new contract and junior doctors will...
Over 100,000 workers and youth demanded ‘Hands off the Lebanon’ on a march in London last Saturday

WE WILL KILL ANYBODY THAT MOVES – Israelis warn residents of Tyre

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Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers in fighting along the southern Lebanon border yesterday. This was after a night of air attacks by Israeli jets...
Don't Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!

Don’t Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!

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THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...

Murdoch Quits News International

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James Murdoch quit as executive chairman of News International yesterday, but said he will remain as deputy chief operating officer of parent group News...

Athens Law School occupied!

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STUDENTS and unemployed youth have occupied the Law School building of Athens University in the centre of the city demanding the closing down of...

Police state attack on the press!

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UK NEWSPAPERS have warned that if a government bill authorising police to seize journalists’ notebooks, photos and digital files is passed today, it could...

Felixstowe Dockers Begin An Eight-Day Strike!

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DOCK workers at the UK’s largest container port yesterday began an eight-day strike, for the first time in 30 years. About 1,900 members of the...

NO! TO BAA BLANKET BAN – climate change camp going ahead

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The High Court yesterday refused to grant British Airports Authority (BAA) a blanket ban on protests in and around Heathrow airport that would have...

Greek Bankworkers Fight Sackings

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GREEK bankworkers at the Piraeus Bank went on a national strike last Friday against mass sackings. On the orders of the EU all Greek...

African-American farmers lost $326bn worth of acreage in the 20th century

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AFRICAN-American farmers lost roughly $326 billion worth of acreage during the 20th century, adding to the racial wealth gap in the United States, a...

MI5 chief urges war on liberty! – ‘blank cheque for unlimited surveillance’

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FOR the first time ever, the serving director of MI5, Andrew Parker, yesterday gave a live BBC interview in a bid to push MPs...